Grandpa Quotes - Page 4

• I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

  Roald Dahl

  Sometimes, Imagine, Heard

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• Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!

  Stephen Colbert

  Hearing, Aids, Turns

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• You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

  Albert Einstein

  Mom, Grandma, Grandmother

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• Over Kyle's shoulder she could see grandpa, looking like a cross between a grizzly bear and a giant pissed-off blowfish.

  P. C. Cast

  Pissed Off, Giants, Grizzly Bears

  P.C. Cast (2009). “Divine by Blood”, p.135, LUNA

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• Sing!" Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right."Sing!" If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself... I thought, cringing.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Song, Thinking, Voice

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Grandpa?" Declan raised his eyebrows. "We keep him in the shed out back," Jack said helpfully. "So he doesn't eat dog brains.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dog, Eyebrows, Brain

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “On The Edge”, p.122, NYLA

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• Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.

  Grace Paley

  Summer, Running, Sweet

  Grace Paley (2016). “Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• ...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Night, Sea

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• Vikus looked at Luxa and opened his arms. She stood, still frozen, staring at him as if he were a complete stranger. "Luxa, it's your grandpa," said Gregor. It seemed like the best and most important thing to say at the moment. "It's your grandpa." Luxa blinked. A tiny tear formed at the corner of her eye. A battle took place on her face as she tried to stop the feelings rising up inside her. The feelings won, and to Gregor's great relief, she ran into Vikus's arms.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Rising Up, Feelings

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.170, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

  Ellen Goodman

  Memories, Video, Fleeting

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• Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

  Paulette Alden

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fading

  Paulette Bates Alden (1988). “Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories”

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• If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Fun, Grandma, Grandmother

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• What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Kindness, Children, Life Lesson

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• Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

  Blake Shelton

  Artist, Want, Rays

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• We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• We have become a grandmother.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Grandma, Grandmother, Iron Lady

  Quoted in Times (London), 4 Mar. 1989

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• Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Moving, Grandma

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• I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

  Susan Strasberg

  Grandma, Home, Grandmother

  Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”

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• Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

  Gottfried Keller

  Grandma, Kids, Gossip

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• They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.

  Camara Laye

  Grandma, Heart, Grandmother

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• Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

  Eda LeShan

  Retirement, Attitude, Grandma

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• Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.

  Alvin Francis Poussaint

  Dad, Children, Father

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• Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in ways that they did not indulge their own children. Grandfather knows that after the fun and games are over with his adorable grandchildren he can return to the quiet of his own home and peacefully reflect on this phenomenon of fatherhood.

  Alvin Francis Poussaint

  Fun, Children, Home

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• Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother.

  Margaret Whitlam

  Children, Grandma, Grandmother

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• Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me
  We in like that, you're dead like Presley

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Tests, Like You

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